Object number:
2010.54.1524
Object name:
poster; work on paper
Title:
a little MX could ruin your X-mas
Maker:
Jos Sances
Date made:
1982
Material / Technique:
Screen print on paper
Dimensions:
H: 23.25 in, W: 17.5 in
Credit line:
All Of Us Or None Archive. Gift of the Rossman Family.
Copyright status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Physical description:
poster
Content description:
Poster has a light gray background with a dark gray, red and white lined border. In the center are three drawings of Christmas nutcracker toys: A Santa Claus holding a bag of toys, Uncle Sam holiding a bag of money, and a soldier holding a bag of guns and missiles. Below reads, "a little m.x. could ruin your x-mas." [This refers to the LGM-118A "Peacekeeper" missile, also known as the MX (for Missile-eXperimental ), a land-based ICBM program started in 1972 and revised under Reagan in 1981. -LMC]
Concepts:
toy soldier; Uncle Sam; Santa Claus; satire; Christmas; missile
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